Anytime we apply today's ethics to a 76 year old movie we may be disappointed that it doesn't meet our every little need for fairness and equity.
Banning a movie because of retroactive grievances is a fool's errand.

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originally posted by: queenofswords
First African American to win an academy award was from Gone With the Wind. Hattie McDaniel who played the role of 'Mammy' won the Oscar for Best
Supporting Actress. It was a start. Her performance was amazing.

I agree. "Mammy" made that film so much more watchable and entertaining. She and Butterfly McQueen were awesome in it.

This used to be an expensive DVD, last month I found it in the $5 bin at Wal Mart. A must have for any serious classic movie collector. Hurry up and
dig through the bin, I have a feeling they are going to stop printing it.

In the 80s it was shown at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, and I went and saw it in a magnificent theater with a full house. The lush color
and beauty of the film on a wide screen was breathtaking.

I've also been to Memphis. I love that their high school there by where Elvis lived is called "Cretin High School". How apropo.

If you want to see an old film that really puts racism in your face, see "Imitation of Life" with Lana Turner. Wow. A fantastic movie with several
plots, including a little girl who looks sort of white but has a black mother, and how she tries to pass as 'white' so she's not treated differently.
It's bold, brave for its time, and the ending will have you going through a box of tissues.

This is not a racial thing and it's not them doing this. It's a small number of attention whores having a great time watching us dance, most of them
White. They have been allowed to take over because weak minded, weak willed people panic over a few nasty emails or phone calls.

It's trendy now to label everything racist or hate. This small minority of people involved need to have the microphone taken away from them and the
damn politicians need to grow a pair and stop kowtowing to them for a few extra votes like the scummy little dirt bags they are.

originally posted by: Asktheanimals
They'll substitute some Quentin Tarantino film like Django Unchained.
Nice family film, take the kids!

Maybe black snake moan , or maybe American history X. How well would that go over , tv and movies are all going to be unicorns and rainbows when
people finall stop complaining, maybe they should worry about the crime rate in their cities and the other insensitive things that are happening in
real life and stop worrying about a GD movie.

And Roland in the new Dark Tower movie. If you read the books you know this doesn't work. See Detta Walker. I don't get it. Still. A separate
issue.

Haven't seen that one. Read some of the books ages ago, but can't remember the characters. Not surprised, though. They did something like that in
The Pelican Brief, too. The reporter was clearly a white guy in the book, which brought in some funny moments as he met with his contact.
Didn't work well at all. Nothing against Denzel Washington - he's a good actor - but he wasn't right for that role.

I think it's all related. The trend is to condemn anything and everything about the past, if it's about a time before the civil rights years, while
at the same time condemning all white people, for being white, which is utterly racist. Not showing a classic movie, because it's about the Civil War
era? Ridiculous! When are we banning movies that insult white folks? How about the commercials?? I see those frequently. The smart person, the
monied person, etc, is always something other than white, and if there is someone foolish, or otherwise picked on, it's always, ALWAYS, a white guy.
There are companies that lost our business because of this nonsense.

It's sickening, the way society has changed in recent years, when it comes to race issues. Growing up, we were taught that color didn't matter. We
flat didn't care what someone looked like. The first racism I saw was from black kids in the school to which we were bused, back in those days. Even
then, that didn't change who we played with at home, which was a family with seven kids, who happened to be black. Wasn't their fault those other
kids were racists. In later years, I saw less and less of that, and people seemed to really not care. Now, it's like that's ALL some think about,
and they are more racist than anything I've seen in my life. When that poor kid was tortured in Chicago, the media called him a "man", at 18, and the
three 18-year-olds, and 20-something that attacked him were described as "teens". Same age, or older, but the victim is a "man", and the attackers
are "just kids"? It's flat wrong.

My daughter referred to a friend of hers as her "cousin"; a friend who was the daughter of a friend of mine, also my maid of honor, who was very
dark-skinned, black, while my own is so pale she practically glows in the dark. These days, people would be attacking her friend, for daring to have
a white friend. It's just sick. Erasing history, excusing racism, while labeling all who disagree as "closet racists/Nazis/whatever" - race
relations are as bad as they've ever been.

I made my ex see it at the University of Minnesota in the 80s. He'd never even heard of it.

The packed theatre laughed and hollered so loudly and offensively that we left part way through. He didn't get it at all.

I grew up believing this was the best movie ever made. So romantic, beautiful costumes, fearful scenes before, during and after the war that ruined
the south and Scarlett with her fist in the air defiantly telling God she and her fold will never starve again.

She sold herself body and soul to survive. There are so many levels to this movie.

The slaves were pitifully treated and depicted which always bothered me but it was the past, I was told.

However, as I became more aware even in the 60s, the blacks still suffered which I was especially aware of in Atlanta.

Now I know it's just another piece of history-not pretty or as romantic but certainly deserves to exist as a reminder of a different time that did
exist-in reality as well as the movies.

I still think Obama had all those years he could have brought our country together and he consistently made racial comments and took sides further
dividing and encouraging blacks and whites to take stands against one another. What a horrible waste of an example of leadership and power. I do
think history will not look favorably on his presidency; especially if he continues to use his after-presidency power to mobilize even further anguish
between the races. So disappointing.

originally posted by: intrepid
Well if anyone wants to see it there's always dvd.

Or streaming on line. Or if they really cared they could start
their own theater and play gone with the wind every night.
History is not being erased just because one theater decides to
stop playing one movie, at the behest of the citizens of the that city.
Un-bunch your panties.

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